Welcome to Winston Taylor
Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing’s UK-led businesses announce their intent to come together to create Winston Taylor, a firm built for the businesses, people, and markets driving capital and innovation.
Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing’s UK-led businesses intend to come together to create Winston Taylor, a firm built for the businesses, people, and markets driving capital and innovation.
Together, we’ll be one of the world’s largest transatlantic law firms, with hubs in major commercial centers: the US, the UK, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. We will be present in the places that matter to our clients.
Winston Taylor will work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients in every breakthrough moment. Combining scale with the speed clients demand, we’re building a powerhouse in major litigation, critical transactions, strategic IP, and private wealth.
With a shared innovative spirit and ambition to redefine the client-firm relationship, Winston Taylor will change how clients experience law: where strategic rigor meets relentless, hands-on action.
A transatlantic powerhouse:
> 999 lawyers
> $ 0.1 billion in estimated revenue
> 99 years of joint experience
Where you need us:
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East
Built for the businesses, people, and markets driving capital and innovation.
From world-changing technology companies and life science innovators to global financial leaders, we’ll be there with the people defining our times. Our new firm will be a leader in the legal services that matter in their breakthrough moments — protecting, growing, and defending their value and impact.
Major litigation
From managing risk and resolving conflict, to fighting in court and arbitration, we will protect and defend our clients as they break new ground.
Together, we intend to combine Winston & Strawn's formidable US trial and high-stakes litigation experience with Taylor Wessing's complex investigations and cross-border litigation expertise.
With this second-to-none litigation practice, no challenge will be too big.
Critical transactions
As our clients grow within and across borders, we will go where their ambition leads.
For their most significant corporate and real estate transactions, we will bring deep local expertise paired with seamless global execution.
From early-stage venture funding to significant growth investments, private equity, M&A and capital markets, we will be where our clients need us, when they need us.
Strategic IP
Working with IP-rich businesses, we will protect, scale and defend ideas with a holistic IP offering.
We bring together two IP leaders to create one of the largest and most highly rated transatlantic practices.
Whether it's patent, copyright, or trademark protection, or first-chair defense in all-or-nothing cases, we are ready to tackle any IP issue head-on.
Private wealth
Private capital and our private clients sit at the heart of leading businesses, industries, and markets across the globe.
From founders and family offices to multi-jurisdictional estates, our new firm will support wealth throughout its lifecycle – from creation through to structuring, preservation, and deployment.
FAQs
This combination will be a natural evolution for two rising firms who are both looking to expand their geographic reach to deliver the seamless service clients need.
As Winston Taylor, we will grow and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients in every breakthrough moment.
Together we will be unmatched in major litigation, critical transactions, strategic IP, and private wealth, with a focus on innovation-driven industries spanning technology, life sciences, and financial services.
For Winston & Strawn, the combination fulfills a strategic goal of growing in London, anchoring an elite, full-service UK and European platform. For Taylor Wessing's UK-led businesses, it delivers the US presence their European and Middle Eastern clients and lawyers have wanted for years.
Taylor Wessing's UK-led business (which has operations in the UK, Ireland, Dubai and lawyers in San Francisco) will exit the Taylor Wessing verein and combine with Winston & Strawn to create Winston Taylor.
Taylor Wessing Netherlands (which has operations in the Netherlands and Belgium) will also exit the Taylor Wessing verein and intends to enter into an agreement with Winston Taylor to operate under the Winston Taylor brand.
Winston Taylor will have a cooperation and referral relationship with the remainder of the Taylor Wessing verein to provide continuity of support to clients.
Winston & Strawn Chairman Steve D’Amore will continue as Chairman of the combined firm, and Taylor Wessing UK Managing Partner Shane Gleghorn will serve as Managing Partner of Europe and Middle East for Winston Taylor and become a member of its Executive Committee.
Winston Taylor will be built for the businesses, people, and markets driving capital and innovation. We will provide our clients seamless transatlantic service, as well as deep experience in the major commercial centers where they operate. The combination gives clients access to an expanded transatlantic team with the highest level of capabilities in the areas that matter most.
Winston Taylor’s expanded elite corporate, private equity, real estate, finance, antitrust, regulatory, and private wealth capabilities will provide clients with end-to-end global business strategy and support, with a particular strength in major litigation, critical transactions, strategic IP, and private wealth.
If you are a client of ours, we encourage you to speak with your relationship teams about what this combination will mean for you. Until we have completed the transaction, we will operate as separate firms, always in a way that best serves the interests of our clients.